A 37-year-old man was arrested regarding the murder of Kannada newspaper editorial manager Gauri Lankesh in the city almost a half year prior, police said on Friday. KT Naveen Kumar, held for unlawful ownership of shots, is allegedly associated with radical Hindutva equip called the Hindu Yuva Sena.

“KT Naveen Kumar was arrested by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka Police for addressing,” SIT Investigating Officer MN Anucheth told IANS in Bengaluru. Kumar hails from Birur town in Chikkamagaluru locale, around 250 kilometer west from Bengaluru, Anucheth said.

Kumar is likewise, as indicated by this report in The Indian Express, connected to individuals from the Sanatan Sanstha outfit and its offshoot the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. He has been found possessing in excess of 15 rounds of the cartridges of the .32 bore, which are the same as the 7.65 mm cartridges.

Lankesh, 55, the editorial manager of “Lankesh Patrike”, was shot dead outside her living arrangement in the city’s southwestern suburb by unidentified attackers on 5 September a year ago.

The state government had set up the SIT to test the columnist dissident’s slaughtering.